Today's gold standard in surgical hair restoration is a procedure known as Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT). Follicular Unit Transplatation might appear to be a simple outpatient procedure, but a very specific skill set is needed to perform it well. Hair transplantation is a team effort, and each member of the surgical staff must be highly trained in order to achieve the desired cosmetic r...

Today's gold standard in surgical hair restoration is a procedure known as Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT). Follicular Unit Transplatation might appear to be a simple outpatient procedure, but a very specific skill set is needed to perform it well. Hair transplantation is a team effort, and each member of the surgical staff must be highly trained in order to achieve the desired cosmetic r...

Surgically complex procedures require a balance of knowledge, surgical skill, and experience with appropriate ongoing surgical volume and monitoring of outcomes and adverse events. Sacrocolpopexy has the potential to improve patient outcomes. These guidelines are meant to provide guidance for privileging and credentialing of physicians planning to implement or continue to use this procedure in ...

Today's gold standard in surgical hair restoration is a procedure known as Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT). Follicular Unit Transplatation might appear to be a simple outpatient procedure, but a very specific skill set is needed to perform it well. Hair transplantation is a team effort, and each member of the surgical staff must be highly trained in order to achieve the desired cosmetic r...

An interesting aspect of games is the relative extent to which a player can positively influence his results by making appropriate strategic choices. This question is closely related to the issue of how to distinguish between games of skill and games of chance. The distinction between these two types of games is definitely interesting from a juridical point of view. Borm and Van der Genugten (2...

Employers expect graduates and postgraduates to demonstrate their education through more than good grades. Learning activities that develop subject skills during formalized programmes of undergraduate and postgraduate study also develop employability skills, if the curriculum is suitably aligned, and developmental planning is supported. Only little extra provision is required, but all developme...

PURPOSE The effect of e-learning on practical skills in medicine has not yet been thoroughly investigated. Today's multimedia learning environment and access to e-books provide students with more knowledge than ever before. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of online demonstrations concerning the quality of orthodontic appliances manufactured by undergraduate dental students. MA...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The most remarkable behavioral asymmetry is handedness. The preferred hand often has better performance, motor strength, nonpreferred hand. However, whether these components are associated with skill learning is not clear. METHODS We evaluated healthy right-handers by setting a series of motor-performance tasks including skill learning, grip strength, and speed. RESUL...

This article presents a generalization of the equilibrium analysis for the simple two-player poker game with alternate bidding of Von Neumann and Morgenstern. It approximates optimal play for this game if it is played with a regular deck of 52 cards and it discusses some strategic insights. In addition, the paper studies the relative skill level of this game.

In 2013, Canadian scholars delivered a 1-week workshop to 30 junior public health professionals in Rwanda. The goal was to improve the Rwandans' skills and confidence with respect to writing scientific papers for submission to international peer-reviewed global health journals. As a result of the workshop, there was a statistically significant improvement in participants' reported confidence in...